Re: [Geary] Symbolic Icon

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hi Stephen,

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Stephen Michel 
<stephen michel tufts edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Stephen Michel 
> > <stephen michel tufts edu> wrote:
> > > [1]: a png and the svg source: http://stephenmichel.me/geary/

> I agree with Mike that it is important to retain the feel of the 
> color icon. I also think that is is a good thing to use the entire 
> space available for a symbolic icon. However, I think Federico's 
> point is more important than either: the most important job of the 
> symbolic icon is to communicate the meaning quickly.

Yep, I don't disagree with you.

> In order to do that, the icon must be simple enough to recognize at a 
> glance, and we get that through emphasizing the key features. Over 
> the past few weeks I've used several versions. The easiest to 
> recognize was the one directly under the color icon. I've gone ahead 
> and made a second version of the icon which is a blend of that one 
> and the icon in the upper right corner. It's at the same url, quoted 
> above.

I've been using this version for the last few days and am pretty happy 
with how it keeps the visual identity of the full-colour icon 
reasonably intact - even as a large app icon under the HighContrast 
theme in the Shell's Activities pane, and the reduction of clutter is 
better than the one currently used in 0.11.

> I should clarify that the envelope is the same size in all of the 
> iterations, including this one, because I didn't want to touch the 
> dimensions/ratio. There's a bit of room to play around with this 
> version of the icon, and I do think it would be beneficial to shrink 
> the bottom line a little and make the envelope have a slightly larger 
> height. I'll see if I can find time to do that cleanly later this 
> week. I'll also experiment with wider lines on the envelope.

Cool, I look forward to seeing it!

//Mike

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